90 Sculpture Quotes for You to Enjoy

I'm quite sure that all true professional artists, of every description, in all walks of life, whether their craft is painting, music, sculpture, medicine or anything, have one primary concern - mankind. Chico Hamilton

Life Music Walks Painting Every Medicine True Primary Concern Sure Craft Quite Artists Anything Whether Mankind Sculpture Professional Description

If I wanted to have total control and be a dictator, I would do ice sculpture in my basement. If I want to make a movie, I'm going to work with 500 people, and I will have to work with their strength and their weakness. Denis Villeneuve

Work Strength People Will Control Weakness Would Total Make Dictator Going Want Movie Wanted Ice Sculpture Basement

I feel like the job in editing is to let the movie tell you what it is. So again, it's like sculpture. You just start taking away, you add a nose here, you cut off, like, the side of the cheek over here in the crease, and you have a face. But it really reveals to you what it means to be over time, and if you have enough time. Derek Cianfrance

Time You Editing Job Face Add Enough Enough Time Side Tell Taking Feel Over Like Cheek Reveals Off Just Nose Movie Again Cut Really Means Sculpture Away Start Here

Sometimes people damage paintings or sculpture because they love it. They throw their arms around a statue in a fit of hysterical passion and it falls over. Elizabeth Kostova

Love People Sometimes Passion Statue Throw Hysterical Over Arms Because Around Falls Fit Sculpture Paintings Damage

I started doing sculpture in 1959. I had no commissions then. They were painted, similar in style to the paintings... At a certain point, I decided I didn't want an edge between two colors, I wanted color differences in literal space. Ellsworth Kelly

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Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture. Ezra Pound

Art Wax Poetry Real Dummy Barber Sculpture

I have seen Colonial churches since I was very small, Colonial painting and polychrome sculpture. And that was all I saw. There was not a single modern painting in any museum, not a Picasso, not a Braque, not a Chagall. The museums had Colombian painters from the eighteenth century and, of course, I saw Pre-Columbian art. That was my exposure. Fernando Botero

Art Seen Single Painting Saw Churches Small Colonial Picasso Had Since Course Very Modern Any Eighteenth Eighteenth Century Century Sculpture Painters Exposure Museum Museums

Until film is just as easily accessible as a pen or pencil, then it's not completely an art form. In painting, you can just pick up a piece of chalk, a stick, or whatever. In sculpture, you can get a rock. Writing, you just need a pencil and paper. Film has been a very elitist medium. It costs so much money. Forest Whitaker

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The question I ask myself when adapting a book is how do I be true to the spirit and soul of the character? How would I describe this character in my medium? If you asked one person to do a painting of something and another to create a sculpture of it, you'll never ask, 'Why doesn't the painting look like the sculpture?' Gavin Hood

Myself Character You Soul Book Be True Painting Adapting Medium Would Spirit Something Never True Like Look Another How Question Person Ask Asked Create Sculpture Describe Why

The growth of art seems to be in cycles, and often its vigorous lifetime is restricted to a century or two. The periods of distinctive drama, Greek, English, Spanish, fall within such a limit; the schools of painting and sculpture likewise; and, in poetry, the Victorian age or the school of Pope will serve as examples. George Edward Woodberry

Art Age School Will Fall Painting Drama Distinctive Restricted Seems Examples Poetry Lifetime Schools Likewise Periods Within Limit Greek Often Spanish Victorian Century Sculpture Cycles Pope English Vigorous Serve Growth Two

Since the Gothic, European sculpture has become overgrown with moss, weeds - all sorts of surface excrescences which completely concealed shape. It has been Brancusi's special mission to get rid of this overgrowth and to make us once more shape-conscious. Henry Moore

In Giacometti's work, the armature has once again become the life-line of the sculpture, and also, he's brought back to sculpture a nervous sensitivity which the 'pure carving' side of sculpture can lose sight of altogether. Henry Moore

Work Pure Nervous Become Lose Side Back Once Sight Carving Brought He Also Altogether Which Again Sensitivity Sculpture

Well, what I'm doing is really clothing. I'm not doing sculpture. Issey Miyake

Well Doing Clothing Really Sculpture

In Portugal, my sculpture 'She Changes' refers to the town's fishing history, to the era of seafaring trade and discovery. The contemporary site is industrial, surrounded by red and white striped smokestacks, which is mirrored in the pattern of the sculpture. Janet Echelman

History White Changes Striped Red Town Contemporary Industrial She Trade Era Fishing Discovery Surrounded Site Which Pattern Sculpture Portugal

I believe people can have a profound experience by being surrounded by something beautiful - that's what I aim for. My sculpture is about the way you feel when you're standing under it and inside it. It's experiential art. Janet Echelman

Beautiful Art You Experience People Believe Aim Way Inside About Something Feel Surrounded Being Sculpture Standing Profound

Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing. Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing. Joan Didion

You Writing Matter Finished Research Down Every Stroke Strokes More Shaping Put Like Course Nonfiction Still Go Texture Rewrite Sculpture Original Paintings Novels Specifically Thing Watercolors

The thing with sculpture is, 90% of the time, when I pass a piece of sculpture, it's in public or somewhere, and it's just, how inconvenient that that's there. It takes up so much room, and it's so oppressive. John Lurie

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Novel writing, like so many things in life, is an iterative process. You come at it again and again, working at it like you would a piece of pottery or a stone sculpture, chipping away the parts that don't make sense, smoothing over the rough edges. Kameron Hurley

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